"Kevin Smith Interviewed on The Treatment"

 I decide to choose Kevin Smith as the person to write for my blog. This podcast was aired on April 6th 2011, and this conversion was about his newest indie film Red State. 
Kevin's film career range from director, writer, and even sometimes an actor in his films. He made films such as Dogma, Clerks I and II. 

  First, during the viewing of this interview, Kevin Smith wanted to say a few things about his film Red State. Before that part of the conversion was talk about, Kevin wanted to point out; how he became a filmmaker. He remembered reading an article from 20 years ago, about an unknown filmmaker by the name of Richard Linklater. Who made an indie film called Slacker(1991), and the director who made this film. Had shot the whole film completely in his home town of Austin, Texas. At that time when Kevin was inspired by this film, to make want to be a filmmaker. 
 The big shocker to me, was that Kevin was going to retire from the film industry. 

I would like to tell one of the three quotes, that Kevin was saying during the interview. First, as I talking about Kevin retiring the film industry in paragraph two. He had said "I'm just retiring from the film business as a director". Which he wanted to give the chance to younger filmmakers who are coming into the industry, in a way, it sounds like the passing of the torch. But he's not going away from making films, because I heard recently that he's working on a draft of his next film Clerks III. 


Secondly, when Kevin first started out a writer, which he had heard from other writers, "writers don't get any respect for there work" When you hand your final script, he or she the director can choose to do with it. They can just as easily tear up the script, and throw it way if they choose to. Which is why Kevin wanted to "direct his films, to protect his scripts"


Third, Kevin had said: "I want to make movies to tell stories, not to make comedies". But that's how he made his first film Clerks, which is based on his first job at a quick stop liquor store. For the most part comedies have help his film career, and he also wanted to say that it's truly hard work to put your film out there. You have to find a someone who can distribute his films, and show up for live question and answer panels to talk about what film is about. In all it sounds like a lot of work to just get everyone to see your films. 


Finally, from listening from this very interesting podcast of Kevin Smith. His take on making films over the years, has help him become the type of person we can like or dislike. Even thou his films weren't that great, over the past six years as some people would say. I was truly surprised how he inspired to make films, by someone, Who was a nobody and is a some body in Hollywood  To me, I think of Kevin who's just an average guy who wanted to make films. For our enjoyment, than to make million dollar films that would do well at the box office. In the end Kevin has helped us connect with his best films like Clerks, Dogma, and all the other well known ones. To even showing the nerdy side of showing his love for Star Wars, and comic books, which is why he has such huge fan base at comic book culture  In a way, I would like to say thank you for showing his for love films and letting us enjoy his films.